8-letter words containing l, e, s
- crinkles — Plural form of crinkle.
- cripples — Plural form of cripple.
- cropless — without a crop or crops
- crosslet — a cross having a smaller cross near the end of each arm
- crousely — in a crouse manner
- cruelest — willfully or knowingly causing pain or distress to others.
- crullers — Plural form of cruller.
- crumbles — Plural form of crumble.
- crumples — to press or crush into irregular folds or into a compact mass; bend out of shape; rumple; wrinkle.
- cubicles — A small partitioned-off area of a room, for example one containing a bed in a dwelling or one containing a desk in an office.
- cuffless — having no cuff or cuffs
- culchies — Plural form of culchie.
- culdesac — Alternative spelling of cul-de-sac.
- culottes — Culottes are knee-length women's trousers that look like a skirt.
- cultures — the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.
- culverts — Plural form of culvert.
- cumulose — abounding in heaps or cumuli
- curbless — with no curb or restraint
- cureless — a means of healing or restoring to health; remedy.
- cursedly — In a cursed manner; miserably.
- curseful — (archaic) horrendous, horrific.
- cusk-eel — any of several eellike, marine fishes of the family Ophidiidae, having the ventral fins located under the throat and so modified as to resemble barbels.
- cusplike — Resembling or characteristic of a cusp.
- cuticles — Plural form of cuticle.
- cutlines — Plural form of cutline.
- cyclades — a group of over 200 islands in the S Aegean Sea, forming a department of Greece. Capital: Hermoupolis (Ermoupoli, on Syros). Pop: 112 615 (2001). Area: 2572 sq km (993 sq miles)
- cyclones — Plural form of cyclone.
- cyclopes — Plural form of cyclops.
- cypselae — Plural form of cypsela.
- dabblers — Plural form of dabbler.
- daedalus — an Athenian architect and inventor who built the labyrinth for Minos on Crete and fashioned wings for himself and his son Icarus to flee the island
- dalesman — a person living in a dale, esp in the dales of N England
- dalesmen — Plural form of dalesman.
- damocles — a sycophant forced by Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, to sit under a sword suspended by a hair to demonstrate that being a king was not the happy state Damocles had said it was
- danglers — to hang loosely, especially with a jerking or swaying motion: The rope dangled in the breeze.
- darioles — Plural form of dariole.
- dateless — likely to remain fashionable, relevant, or interesting regardless of age; timeless
- dawdlers — Plural form of dawdler.
- dayflies — Plural form of dayfly.
- dayshell — a thistle
- dazzlers — Plural form of dazzler.
- de stijl — a group of artists and architects in the Netherlands in the 1920s, including Mondrian and van Doesburg, devoted to neoplasticism and then dada
- dealfish — any deep-sea teleost fish of the genus Trachipterus, esp T. arcticus, related to the ribbonfishes and having a very long tapelike body and a fan-shaped tail fin
- dealings — Someone's dealings with a person or organization are the relations that they have with them or the business that they do with them.
- debacles — Plural form of debacle.
- debtless — something that is owed or that one is bound to pay to or perform for another: a debt of $50.
- decibels — a unit used to express the intensity of a sound wave, equal to 20 times the common logarithm of the ratio of the pressure produced by the sound wave to a reference pressure, usually 0.0002 microbar.
- decimals — pertaining to tenths or to the number 10.
- declaims — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of declaim.
- declares — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of declare.